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MicroK8s gets powerful add-ons

We are excited to announce new Cilium and Helm add-ons, coming to MicroK8s! These add-ons add even more power to your Kubernetes environment built on...

Useful security software from the Snap Store

Overall, most Linux distributions offer sane, reasonable defaults that balance security and functionality quite well. However, most of the security mechanisms...

Jupyter looks to distro-agnostic packaging for the democratisation of installation

When users of your application range from high school students to expert data scientists, it’s often wise to avoid any assumptions about their system...

How to add a linter to ROS 2

A well configured linter can catch common errors before code is even run or compiled. ROS 2 makes it easy to add linters of your choice and make them part of...

Design and Web team summary – 16 August 2019

This iteration was the Web & design team’s first iteration of the second half of our roadmap cycle, after returning from the mid-cycle roadmap sprint in...

Linting ROS 2 Packages with mypy

One of the most common complaints from developers moving into large Python codebases is the difficulty in figuring out type information, and the ease by which...

8 Ways Snaps are Different

Depending on the audience, the discussion of software packaging elicits very different responses. Users generally don’t care how software is packaged, so long...

Why multi-cloud has become a must-have for enterprises: six experts weigh in

Remember the one-size-fits-all approach to cloud computing? That was five years ago. Today, multi-cloud architectures that use two, three, or more providers,...


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OpenStack Charms 19.07 – Percona Cluster Cold Start, DVR SNAT and more

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 19.07. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements...

Provisioning ESXi with MAAS: An overview

MAAS has supported provisioning ESXi starting from MAAS 2.5. However, MAAS 2.6 has expanded its support and provides new features that significantly improves...

Julia and Jeff discover the ease of snaps at the Snapcraft Summit

Julia is an open source, high-level, general-purpose, dynamic programming language designed for numerical analysis and computational science, launched in...

Enhanced Livepatch desktop integration available with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS has just been released. For the Desktop, newer stable versions of GNOME components have been included, as well as a new feature – Livepatch...

Slow snap? Trace-exec to the rescue!

Slow applications are never fun. But not knowing why an application is not behaving correctly can be even more frustrating. A well-designed system that can...

Creating a ROS 2 CLI command and verb

Following our previous post on ROS 2 CLI (Command Line Interface), we will see here how one can extend the set of existing CLI tools by introducing a new...

Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10 – an introduction

Ubuntu has supported ZFS as an option for some time. We started with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu 15.10, then delivered it as a FS container in 16.04, and ...

Ubuntu Server development summary – 06 August 2019

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team....


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